Beef, a hardcore rapper from the north
side of St. Louis, has released his premier LP record, “Beef
Presents: Warrior 4 Life: Da Album.” The album is an extremely
high-value offering from Beef, whose “Warrior 4 Life...” spans an
impressive 18 professional and original tracks, none of them remixes
from old material, nor remixes of songs on the same release. This
chain of urban creativity contains a full 71 minutes of playing time,
making it one of the most comprehensive rap releases this year has
seen to date, perhaps above all others.
Beef's sound is tough and full of bass
tones, his voice sounding sometimes like Dr. Dre, and sometimes like
Ice Cube, but always raw and unpolished with studio effects like
autotune or other such frills that get in the way of contemporary,
pure and true poetry of the street. Beef's themes are entirely direct
and mature, also, the record receiving an “Explicit Lyrics” tag
for all but a handful of tracks. He discusses the trials and
tribulations of having not enough for one's own safety and security
on a regular basis, the struggle for life in the modern era, life's
beauties and horrors, and many other topics familiar to the various
hip-hop subgenres. Make no mistake, however – Beef's “Warrior 4
Life: Da Album” is not a hip-hop record. It is straight-up rap,
right from the heart.
Beef got his start in the music
industry building music studios. He was inspired to create music (and
remains so) by the harsh realities of life, from which many of his
lyrics are born. His record holds a message of strength in the face
of adversity. “If you're born poor,” Beef writes, “first pray.
Stay focused, and give your enemies hell. By any means, stay alive
and get monuz!” [sic].
Beef gives thanks to God in his bio,
too, though his life has been anything but easy. “First of all,”
he says, “I love the Lord because without his help I wouldn't have
come this far with my music, you know. And second, I damn sure love
the money! I've been poor all my life, strugglin' to survive. I
really don't have too much to say. [I'm] just a nigga born and raised
in the north side of St. Louis to a [screwed]-up family, and I pray
that one day the Lord will give me one good blessing before I die.”
Beef's blessing for the underground rap
community is available online worldwide March 20, 2013.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Beef Presents:
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